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“We’d heard Japan’s sentences are light” say foreign travelers arrested for Tokyo robberies

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 1, 2026
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Pair of thieves broke into house in Tokyo one day after arriving in Japan.

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• Japan
• (burglary • COK • crime • Nakano Broadway • rearrest • robbery • saitaiho • theft • watches • wristwatches)

Japanese criminals are now using crabs to hunt for burglary targets

• Elliot Hale
  May 8, 2026

They’re using our urge to share against us.

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• Japan
• (animals • burglary • COK • crab • crazy • crime • social media • stag beetle • theft • weird)

71-year-old Japanese man who “wanted to look cool” robbed 63 houses, treated strangers to sushi

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 28, 2025

Coolness plan included robbing a 91-year-old woman and treating whole restaurants to expensive sushi.

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• Japan
• (burglary • crazy • crime • robbery • sushi • weird)

Okinawa man hired to steal 1,500 Pokémon cards arrested in Tokyo

• Master Blaster
  Jun 14, 2023

The mastermind is still at large, but police are optimistic they’ll catch ’em all.

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • burglary • card shop • crime • Okinawa • Pokemon • pokemon cards • theft • Tokyo • yami baito)

Japan’s first three-title unified boxing champion’s house burglarized during title match

• Master Blaster
  Jun 9, 2022

Champion dealt a sucker punch by crime.

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• Japan
• (boxing • burglary • crime • Naoya Inoue • sports • unified champion)

Stalker uncovered after committing hit and run while driving victim’s car

• Master Blaster
  Nov 23, 2021

Suspect becomes victim in a bizarre twist of fate.

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• Japan
• (bugging • burglary • crime • hit-and-run • Hyogo • shiso • stalking • theft)

Osaka man finds stranger eating in his kitchen at night, stranger dies shortly after

• Master Blaster
  May 7, 2021

Truth is once again stranger than fiction.

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• Japan
• (burglary • crime • death • home invasion • mystery • Osaka • Sakai City • scary)

Fukuoka man arrested for breaking into store, putting on female staff’s apron and shirt

• Master Blaster
  Apr 17, 2021

Suspect admits it was a crime of passion.

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• Japan
• (apron • burglary • crime • Fukuoka • sweatshirt • theft • weird)

Trio of thieves break into Japanese glasses store, foiled by old-timey cash register

• Master Blaster
  Jan 18, 2021

They don’t make them like they used to… back in 1908.

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• Japan
• (burglary • cash register • crime • glasses • Kamakura • Kanagawa • National Cash Register • optician • theft)

Japanese adult video actress gets home-invasion robbed by teenagers in Tokyo

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 29, 2020

Police deliver swift justice.

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• Japan
• (beautiful women • burglary • COK • crime • home invasion • robbery • Tokyo)

Nagoya man arrested for stealing piano covers from schools for reasons unknown to all

• Master Blaster
  Oct 26, 2020

Suspect will hopefully also be charged with mental anguish for not telling us why.

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• Japan
• (burglary • crime • junior high school • Nagoya • piano covers • strange • theft • wtf)

Aichi man arrested for stealing 70,000 yen in toy money from safe

• Master Blaster
  Oct 1, 2020

Crime doesn’t pay, unless you have a game of Monopoly planned later on.

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• Japan
• (Aichi • burglary • crime • elderly • fake money • Nishio • toy money)

Japan’s ninja museum has been robbed by thieves in the middle of the night

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 20, 2020

Iga ninja become victims of stealthy, speedy infiltration.

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• Japan
• (burglary • crazy • crime • Iga • Iga ninja • museums • Ninja • robbery)

Osaka burglar arrested because he couldn’t find a mask during shortage

• Master Blaster
  Aug 18, 2020

Even thieves are feeling the pinch of COVID-19.

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• Japan
• (burglary • coronavirus • COVID-19 • crime • economy • face masks • Osaka)

Family of four arrested for six-month spate of burglaries in Saitama Prefecture

• Master Blaster
  Dec 19, 2019

The family that steals together stays together…until they have to go to separate men’s and women’s prisons of course.

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• Japan
• (burglary • COK • crazy • crime • family • Manbiki Kazoku • Saitama • theft)

Police officer arrested for repeatedly clogging women’s toilets, watching them get upset about it

• Master Blaster
  Oct 2, 2019

Suspect claims an interest in women’s restrooms drove him to commit the crime spree.

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• Japan
• (burglary • clogged toilet • convenience stores • creepy • Fukuoka • police • Public restrooms)

Cringe-worthy thief calling self “Lupin” arrested in “the Flower of O-Edo”

• Master Blaster
  Sep 23, 2019

Self-proclaimed “Lupin of Kansai” claims to have committed 150 thefts before his capture.

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• Japan
• (anime • burglary • crime • Flower of O-Edo • Kansai • lupin III • manga • Tokyo)

Anime cosplayer burglar arrested in Japan, can’t stop dressing up/stealing

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 15, 2019

”Get in the damn prison cell, Shinji!”

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• Japan
• (anime • burglary • COK • cosplay • crazy • crime • Evangelion • Fukuoka • Spider-Man • weird)

Osaka authorities finally arrest “Spider Man”

• Master Blaster
  Aug 18, 2017

Your unfriendly neighborhood wall-crawler currently facing several charges of theft.

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• Japan
• (burglary • climbing • crazy • crime • Osaka • Spider-Man • weird)

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  1. Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
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